It’s fitting that the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show and Halloween take place within days of each other. At SEMA, cars dress up in all sorts of wild ensembles and stuff their guts with performance parts (and marketing B.S.). For Halloween, humans put on silly costumes and stuff their guts with sugar. And during both, you see all sorts of things you never thought you’d lay your eyes on. One example is the GTT, a custom Ford Mustang by Zero to 60 Designs that is claimed to be a tribute to the Ford GT supercar.
First, let’s start with the things that aren’t a matter of opinion: the performance bits. Zero to 60 added a ProCharger supercharger, an exhaust from Magnaflow, an ECU tune from SCT Performance, a Pro-Street-S suspension from Eibach, Brembo brakes, and Pirelli tires. The builder claims that the overall package boasts more than 800 horsepower and comes equipped with all the necessary parts to handle it.
The styling is where things start to get subjective. The exterior modifications include, but are not limited to, a new front fascia, a custom hood with air vents, wider fenders, side skirts, a new spoiler, rear-wheel cooling ducts, dual round taillights, a rear diffuser, and a centered dual exhaust.
At first glance, the link to a GT might not be immediate. In fact, the rear is actually pretty reminiscent of a different supercar, the Ferrari 599XX, with a more bulbous booty. But, if you put this car and a GT next to each other, there are some fairly obvious tie-ins. The frowning lower front fascia, a few of the shapes and placements of the scoops, the hood, the rear fin, and the diffuser offer callbacks of sorts. Obviously, the overall shapes of the cars are highly different, but you can’t say there are no similarities. Sure, this thing doesn’t look that much like a Ford GT, but then again, a trick-or-treater in a Batman costume isn’t going to be mistaken for a real superhero.
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